Confounding is not the only bias influencing associations of adiposity with cardiovascular disease
There has been much discussion in the epidemiological literature about the so-called “obesity paradox”, where being overweight or obese appears to be protective for mortality in studies including individuals with prior cardiovascular disease (CVD). These inferences are based on the J shaped associat...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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